Floyd Gadd's Home Page

Contact Information – Christmas CD Website - Preview and Purchase Tracks for Download – Purchase CD

Performance CV - Online Audition Page - Christmas CD Clips

Floyd Gadd is a Canadian-born tenor who has been performing and teaching vocal music in various capacities over the last twenty years. He is currently teaching voice as a a sessional instructor at the Brandon University School of Music in Brandon, Manitoba.

Floyd holds two Bachelor degrees, one a degree in Church Music from Canadian Bible College in Regina, Saskatchewan (1984), the other an Honors degree in Vocal Performance from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario (1997). Floyd has been active as a performer in Canada, being featured as a soloist with numerous choral groups in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario.

Floyd also operates a piano tuning and repair business, serving Brandon and western Manitoba.

Floyd recorded a solo CD, a collection of Christmas songs, in collaboration with pianist Kara Dixon in 2004. Some samples from the tracks recorded appear below. Windows Media Player version 6.4 or newer is required.

Gesu Bambino by Pietro Yon

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, arranged by James Neal Koudelka

Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming, arranged by Mark Hayes

Il est Né, le Divin Enfant, arranged by Daniel Powers

Go, Tell It On the Mountain, arranged by Mark Hayes

Holy Infant's Lullaby, by Norman Dello Joio

You can purchase this CD directly from Floyd. Please see the contact information at the top of this page. Individual tracks, as well as the whole album, are also available for download at various popular download sites. Previews of all the the songs are also available on these sites. (“Parental Advisory” or “Explicit” warnings have been attached in error to the songs and the album on some download sites. This is in the process of being corrected, but it seems to be taking an awfully long time!)

The recording engineer on the CD is Joe Fingerote . In 2001 he recorded a number of tracks for Floyd, which were prepared for audition purposes. Click here to listen to tracks from that Session.

Floyd's Online Audition Selections